Hyperfocus

How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction

By: Chris Bailey

Narrated by: Chris Bailey

By the author of How To Calm Your Mind, a practical guide to managing your attention—the most powerful resource you have to get stuff done, become more creative, and live a meaningful life

Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. Many of us recognize that our brains struggle to multitask. Despite this, we feel compelled to do so anyway while we fill each moment of our lives to the brim with mindless distraction. Hyperfocus provides profound insights into how you can best take charge of your attention to achieve a greater sense of purpose and productivity throughout the day.

The most recent neuroscientific research reveals that our brain has two powerful modes that can be unlocked when we use our attention effectively: a focused mode (hyperfocus), which is the foundation for being highly productive, and a creative mode (scatterfocus), which enables us to connect ideas in novel ways. Hyperfocus helps you access each of the two mental modes so you can concentrate more deeply, think more clearly, and work and live more deliberately every day. Chris Bailey examines such topics such as:

• identifying and dealing with the four key types of distraction and interruption;
• establishing a clear physical and mental environment in which to work;
• controlling motivation and working fewer hours to become more productive;
• taking time-outs with intention;
• multitasking strategically; and
• learning when to pay attention and when to let your mind wander wherever it wants to.
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  By transforming how you think about your attention, Hyperfocus reveals that the more effectively you learn to take charge of it, the better you'll be able to manage every aspect of your life.

Solid and Effective

The book is a quick read for anyone wanting to build basics for improving productivity.

Gréât insights , pleasant to listen

Great book to improve efficiency . Listening to it every day in my car was very interesting

Very inspiring

I love this book! It explains the details of how to and the benefit of hyper focus and scatter focus with many practical guides. It very beneficial for people who are doing knowledge work.

How to remove distraction from your world

Very good book to listen,
It's help me to reduce the distraction around me and be more focused and more productive,

Similar to his first book

It's along the same vein as the author's first book 'The Productivity Project.' If you like his podcast 'Becoming Better,' you'll like this book. It's more about productivity coaching rather than any new, insightful guidance on focusing. The four stages of hyper focus are:
* Choose a productive or meaningful object of attention.
* Eliminate as many external and internal distractions that you can.
* Focus on that chosen object of attention.
* Continually draw your focus back to that object of attention.

Develop productivity rituals:
* Choose 3 things to accomplish each day. Weigh unexpected tasks against the intentions you set.
* Consider the consequences of each task, both short-term and long term - will it be better by doing that task?
* Set an hourly alarm to see how often you're immersed on productive tasks.
* Block time for hyper focus, starting with 15-20 minutes and increasing it over time.